Brock, don't know if you caught this in another thread but one of my customers quoted someone, maybe even someone from this sight, as saying about the SVs "If I was paying for rolling ball, I'd ask for my money back."
PP.
That quote certainly wasn't from me, I'd never write "If I
was... I'd write "If I
were" and use proper grammar!
No, seriously, I never said that. Sounds more like a dennis hyperbole.
I have always made it clear that we "rolling ballers' are in in the minority, but I have advised people who were asking about "rolling ball" and who weren't sure whether or not they'd be bothered by it, to make sure they either try before they buy or to buy from a store with an ample return period because not everybody adapts to RB quickly, some take days or a week, one member took two weeks, but that's rare.
So you need to give it time rather than quickly dismiss an otherwise excellent bin like the SV EL, Nikon Premier or Kowa Genesis because at first glace you see RB. I think I've been consistent in making that very clear.
Even experts have pointed out RB in their reviews such as Peirgiovanni from binomania and Holger in his reviews, mostly recently in his reviews of 11 midsized bins in which he warned about "rolling ball" in the 8x32 EDG, which I wasn't even aware was an issue.
The main reason I caution members who post queries about RB on these forums is to counteract certain people on here who keep insisting that "rolling ball" is a "non-issue" with the SV EL, or that it's "psychological," "ex nihilo," etc. simply because they can't imagine that anyone could possibly see something different than they do. Such comments misinform readers. "Rolling ball" or "the globe effect" and it's relation to low distortion in optics has been well documented.
I think you should be more concerned about those who keep denying that the compound distortion in the SV EL can create RB for some users and would rather people remain in ignorance by dismissing RB as a "non-issue". At least going in, if your buyers knew there's a chance they will see it, knew what it was, and realized that most people adjust to it with time, you won't get someone looking through an SV EL, seeing a "strange motion" when they pan and then handing the bins back to you and saying they don't like them.
A good example of how this can hurt a buyer was dennis' comments when he responded to another member who was concerned about RB in the 8.5x SV EL, by telling him RB was a "non-issue, don't worry about it". A month or so later, he sold the EL and said the main reason was the "RB was starting to get to me".
Given the glowing reviews the SV ELs have garnered from both reviewers and owners, they are worth checking out even if you suspect you are susceptible to RB. I even conceded that the 8x32 SV EL might be the new "King" of midsized bins, based on reviews and my experience with the WB model.
If one of your buyers took advice from a member on here who said, "If I was paying for rolling ball, I'd ask for my money back," he apparently had not done his homework to check out the trustworthiness of the person who made that comment. Statements like that are as misleading as those that dismiss RB as a "non-issue".
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